Sjukhusbiblioteken i Västerbotten

Det som Rose aldrig trodde skulle kunna hända har nu hänt. Ben är borta. Han har lämnat henne. Varför har han lämnat henne? Hon har ju gjort allt som hon någonsin kunnat förväntas ...

* "Ett mästerverk." New York Times * Finalist till Bookerpriset 2020 Zimbabwe, sent 90-tal. Tambudzai är inte längre ung. Som den enda i sin familj utbildade hon sig och lämnade he ...

Året är 1937 när den 17-åriga Betty lämnar sin norrländska hemstad för att bli hembiträde hos en doktorsfamilj på Östermalm i Stockholm. Betty får det genast kämpigt - hennes goda ...

Tummat pilvet liikkuvat jo Euroopan yllä, kun Valte Ojala elää tavallista kevättä. Vaimo Marian kanssa menee hyvin, vaikka vaikeitakin aikoja on ollut. Perheeseen on siunaantunut k ...

Kaavoitusviraston osastopäällikkö ei pysty nukkumaan öisin. Erikoinen ääni palaa jokaikinen yö ja estää unet. Vieressä nukkuva vaimo ei kuitenkaan kuule ääntä – mistä ihmeestä oike ...

Ystävykset Aadolf ja Yrjö ovat nuorukaisia, joille elämä hymyilee ja joita opettajat yhtä lailla suosivat. Ulkosalla kulkiessaan he juttelevat koulunkäynnistä ja tytöistä. Kävelyre ...

Majuri Bobkovilla on hyvä sydän – ehkä liiankin hyvä. Hän eroaa armeijan palveluksesta ja ottaa holhokikseen katulapsen. Hänelle valinta ei ollut vaikea, sillä viattoman lapsen tar ...

Originally published in 1906, ‘The Malefactor’ is one of E. Phillips Oppenheim’s earlier novels. Sir Wingrave Seton has been wrongfully imprisoned for manslaughter in order to defe ...

Stirling Deane is a rich man, thanks to his discovery and eventual sale of the Little Anna gold mine in South Africa. Many years later an unwelcome visitor from Deane’s past shows ...

Young Lizzie Leigh has fallen pregnant after moving to Manchester. Fearful of her father’s reaction and consumed by guilt, Lizzie deserts her family, believing her disappearance to ...

Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘A Dark Night’s Work’ was first published in serial form in weekly magazine ‘All The Year Round’, which was edited by Charles Dickens. The lovely young Ellinor ...

Newly orphaned Lois Barclay is forced to leave England and sail to America to join her only remaining distant family. Set in Salem against the hysteria of the witch trials, the hon ...

A collection of five short stories from popular Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. The collection includes the tales ‘The Poor Clare’, ‘Lois the Witch’, ‘The Grey Woman’ and ‘The ...

First published in 1855 ‘Half a Lifetime Ago’ by much-loved author Elizabeth Gaskell recounts the events which have befallen the now pessimistic and solitary Susan Dixon, shaping h ...

Author Elizabeth Gaskell’s first ever novel ‘Mary Barton’ was written as a means of distracting herself from her grief over the loss of her young son. Taking inspiration from Manch ...

Young Margaret Dawson has been taken in by her distant cousin Lady Ludlow, the Mistress of Hanbury Court. Though charitable and kind to Margaret, Lady Ludlow holds strict views abo ...

Miss Greatorex is invited to join a group of friends who meet weekly at Mrs Dawson’s house. When Miss Greatorex asks to hear more about Mrs Dawson’s cousin Lady Ludlow, the friends ...

The wife of the town drummer gave birth to a child with red hair that everyone called ‘the drummer’s redhead’. Except for his mother, who called him ‘golden treasure’. His father d ...

No one seemed to know how exactly Philip Drew was. It appeared that he was in the village temporarily to assist the local doctor. Yet in the manor house Falaise, there is a portrai ...

When her great-aunt passed, Romilly was pleased to find that she had inherited a house in Cairo. To her surprise, Crighton Bey cautioned her about her new possessions. Romilly coul ...

Nothing boosts evocative narrative as well as narrow escapes. And Ann Radcliffe mastered it. In this early gothic horror novel, Radcliffe tells the story of the Mazzini household’s ...

Known primarily for her often fantastical children's books, Edith Nesbit also frequented adult fiction, yet never forgetting her roots, exploring genres such as horror and the supe ...

Have you ever wanted to help someone but ended up making things worse?In this collection of short tales we follow the Bastable children who find themselves in exactly that situatio ...

Imagine if magic was real, would it be used for good or evil? Kathleen, Gerald, and Jimmy is about to find out.During a summer vacation, the three children find a mysterious house ...

Two siblings, Elfrida and Edred Arden, have recently become poor. However, the siblings inherit a ruined castle previously owned by a baron, and together they explore the depths of ...